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This would be an interesting strategy to apply towards measuring how an open source community feels about difficult tradeoffs in design where there is no clear
by pohl 7y ago
This would be an interesting strategy to apply towards measuring how an open source community feels about difficult tradeoffs in design where there is no clear winner among many proposals, such as the recent survey meant to measure how people feel about the various async/await syntax proposals in Rust.
https://www.reddit.com/r/rust/comments/biw1ic/asyncawait_syntax_status_update/ https://www.reddit.com/r/rust/comments/biw1ic/asyncawait_syn...
https://www.reddit.com/r/rust/comments/bju8di/asyncawait_syntax_survey_results/ https://www.reddit.com/r/rust/comments/bju8di/asyncawait_syn...
- pauldix 7y agoTotally agree, that's where my mind went to immediately. Features and/or proposals on design in larger projects.
- pbhjpbhj 7y agoI don't know about this particular issue, but in general there's something to be said for beneficent dictatorship. My hypothesis is that sometimes the choosing of individual parts that are measurably better on their own, when combined produce something that is less than if the parts weren't optimally chosen but were cogently chosen to meet a particular ideology or end.